Down by the riverside
Subtitle: a South Carolina slave community
By: Charles Joyner.
Edition: 25th anniversary ed.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780252076831
Subjects: Slavery -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- History; African Americans -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- Folklore; Slaves -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- Folklore; Folklore -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish; Plantation life -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- History; Sea Islands Creole dialect; All Saints Parish (S.C.) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Folklore
Description: "Takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the 25th anniversary edition; title: Prologue; title: "Doen by the riverside"; title: "All dem rice field"; title: "Sit at the welcome table"; title: "Off times"; title: Come by here, Lord"; title: "All de bes' story"; title: Gullah : a Creole language; title: "My time up with you".